VIII. 



EXPENSES. 



TlILS is rather an ugly chapter to look forward 

 to If the reader would only permit me to skip 

 this, I am satisfied I could render him desper- 

 ately in love with gardening, however naturally 

 averse. California, the diamond fields, and 

 Wall Street, would lose all attractions. Men in 

 haste to be rich would only have to start a gar- 

 den, and then with a pencil figure themselves in- 

 to a fortune. If the strawberries on five-eighths 

 of an acre sold for five hundred and eighty- nine 

 dollars, what would the strawberries on five 

 acres fifty acres bring ? The result, on paper, 

 almost takes away one's breath. 



" Two thousand from two acres ! " cries a san- 



